Re: Execute Command Into Buffer lossage

[DULCEY@MIT-ML]

In ZWEI in Experimental LMFILE-Remote 12.1,
Experimental MIT-Specific 4.0, Experimental System 83.18,
Experimental ZMail 43.0, Experimental Remote-File 5.0, microcode 104,
Try me, on Lisp Machine Four:

The following sequence of commands loses in ZWEI:

M-X Execute Command Into Buffer
M-X List All Directory Names
FS:

with the following error message:

>>ERROR: NIL unknown cursor-position unit
While in the function (SELECT-METHOD ZWEI:INTERVAL-IO READ-CURSORPOS)  ZWEI:INTERVAL-TYPEOUT-STREAM-IO  (SELECT-METHOD ZWEI:INTERVAL-TYPEOUT-STREAM-ITEM-IO ITEM-LIST)

(SELECT-METHOD ZWEI:INTERVAL-IO READ-CURSORPOS):
   Arg 0 (IGNORE): READ-CURSORPOS
   --Defaulted args:--
   Arg 1 (UNITS): NIL

The same sequence loses with the device FC:, and both also lose on
System 79.45.  M-X List All Directory Names in normal mode (listing on
screen, without using M-X Execute Command Into Buffer) wins.  I was
unable to try either with an ITS file server because M-X List All
Directory Names takes forever on one.  I also wasn't able to try it on a
Symbolics system, since this poor machine has only two LOD bands,
neither of which is one.